my successor an elected insurance republican commissioner sandy prayinger and i worked on a series of plans tops extend conch. i did work on these issues. we were not able to necessarily get them passed an. >> to use your words, i think you said these were lousy plans. miss tavenner said not true insurance. do you think the plans you offered when you were commissioner were not true insurance. >> the insurance commissioner in kansas and virtually every place in the country does not have the regulatory authority over the plans. >> were they true insurance plans. >> a lot of them are not, no. >> i yield back. >> gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. >> thank you. i'm going to try to summarize quickly what i've been hearing. the website must be fixed. you're going to fix it. number two, i'm hearing a tone change. we've had a real battle will health care. we had a battle in this congress. it was passed. the president signed it. the supreme court affirmed it. a brutal battle. there was an election where the american people affirmed it. then the las gasp effort was the shutdown in the threat of